([#123341](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123341), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))
- kubectl `port-forward` over websockets (tunneling SPDY) can now be enabled using an `Alpha` feature flag environment variable: KUBECTL_PORT_FORWARD_WEBSOCKETS=true. The API Server being communicated to must *also* have an `Alpha` feature flag enabled: PortForwardWebsockets.

      You can safely roll back from 1.4 to 1.3, and things with init-containers
      will still work (pods, deployments, etc).
    * If you are running 1.3, only use the alpha annotation, or it may be lost when
      rolling forward.
      The status has moved from annotation key
      `pods.beta.kubernetes.io/init-container-statuses` to
      `pods.beta.kubernetes.io/init-container-statuses`.

* GCI: Update the command to get the image ([#24987](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24987), [@andyzheng0831](https://github.com/andyzheng0831))
* Port-forward: use out and error streams instead of glog ([#17030](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/17030), [@csrwng](https://github.com/csrwng))

* Fix controller-manager race condition issue which cause endpoints flush during restart ([#23035](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/23035), [@xinxiaogang](https://github.com/xinxiaogang))
* MESOS: forward globally declared cadvisor housekeeping flags ([#22974](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/22974), [@jdef](https://github.com/jdef))

- CoreDNS: The following directives or keywords are deprecated and will be removed in v1.15:
  - `upstream` option of `kubernetes` plugin, becoming default behavior in v1.15.
  - `proxy` plugin replaced by `forward` plugin

## Removed and deprecated metrics

### Removed metrics

- `reflector_items_per_list`
- `reflector_items_per_watch`
- `reflector_last_resource_version`

- Promoted to conformance a test that verified that `Services` only forward traffic on the port and protocol specified. ([#120069](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120069), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))